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cowboy

a conventional character of Wild West folklore, films, etc., esp one involved in fighting Indians
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cowboy

[Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence.
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The discussion of the Great Cattle Die-Up of 1886 and 1887, which Lause connects with Theodore Roosevelt and the elite ranchers in Montana, had a promising start to explain the difficulties cowhands faced, although more detail on the declining cattle industry's effect on cattle hands overall would have been welcome.
Cowboys were simple cowhands on ranches, and the great drives generated much of the mythology and symbolism of cowboy culture.
The popular group known as the "Two Cool Hand Ukes'' will play "I'm an Old Cowhand'' by Johnny Mercer, "Bei Mir Bis Du Schon'' by Sholom Secunda, "Heaven When We're Home'' by Wailin' Jennys and "Wichita'' by Gillian Welch.
Bear & Son Cutlery's new Cowhand Lockback features cowboy-appropriate, "blue jean blue" G10 scales and a large oval hole atop its high-carbon, stainless spear-point blade for 1-hand opening.
come inspect my home if you'd like colors of day rise up again from the well (night) hate descends to threaten the tribe spiraling notes of the muezzin (cowhand of dawn) have just given a sign to the dying stars 2.
A wandering cowhand crosses swords with Judge Roy Bean and is drawn into a conflict between settlers and Texas cattlemen in the 1880s 1940 ????
The 10 tunes included in the collection are "Catch a Falling Star" (featured in Princess Diaries), "Happy Birthday to You," "The Hokey Pokey," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "I'm An Old Cowhand," "Tomorrow" (from Annie), the Beatles tune, "Let it Be," "Over the Rainbow," "Star Wars" (Main theme) and "What a Wonderful World." --Reviewed by Pamela Mullins, Matthews, North Carolina
Dipstick: Or, make yourself a busy little cowhand. Hatch plans to have your gay best friend set you up on dates.
The settlement of the territory by Americans, particularly after the Civil War, produced new problems not just between "the farmer and the cowhand" but former soldiers from North and South, along with a Black population trying to build a new life.
Whether Clint Eastwood is remembered as a cowhand in Rawhide, a detective in Dirty Harry, or a sensitive and skilled movie director for Gran Torino is immaterial to good legal practice in the end.
In the early days the cowhand had to make do with what he could carry with him.
Beginning with the death of an old cowhand in the Sierra Nevadas and quickly progressing to the jungle battlefields of WWII "Indochina" (Vietnam) this ambitious novel spreads its net across the marches of history reeling in gold nuggets of intriguing fictional action.
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